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Old 02-25-2011, 03:00 PM
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I am getting bloody tired of living in Baghdad on the Potomac, BG&E can't keep the power on for 10 minutes at a time, another shining example of efficient private industry.
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Old 02-25-2011, 04:11 PM
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i am getting bloody tired of living in baghdad on the potomac, bg&e can't keep the power on for 10 minutes at a time, another shining example of efficient private industry.
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Old 02-25-2011, 06:30 PM
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Holy crap Blue - agreement! Cheers.

I drove through Youngstown yesterday, first time in a long time. It really does look bad.

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Youngstown is, however, a major exporter of football coaches.

http://www.exit83.com/2010/12/youngs...tball-coaches/

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/co...asp?CID=825102

One not mentioned in the article is Jim Tressell.

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Old 02-25-2011, 11:16 PM
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Youngstown is, however, a major exporter of football coaches.

http://www.exit83.com/2010/12/youngs...tball-coaches/

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/co...asp?CID=825102

One not mentioned in the article is Jim Tressell.

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Oh, those people LIVE for football, with baseball trailing a close second. It's the place to be on the rare occasion that the Browns make it to the Superbowl. Until they (inevitably) lose, anyhow.

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Old 02-25-2011, 11:33 PM
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Holy crap Blue - agreement! Cheers.

I drove through Youngstown yesterday, first time in a long time. It really does look bad.

Pete
Believe it or not, Pete, it's been worse. At least now a lot of the mess is gone. Where there were once dilapidated and abandoned steel mills there are now empty fields, with a few relatively new-ish businesses here and there.
And the old abandoned and burned out neighborhoods have been razed. It's still in sad shape, but twenty years ago, it looked like a war zone. An unbelievable mess, rivaling the ruins of Detroit.

A long, long way to go before it's a decent place to live again, though.
I'm glad to have gotten a glimpse of the tail end of Y'towns glory days as a kid though.

It's sad knowing future generations will grow up having never seen Americas heavy industry at the height of it's glory, or met the men who worked the mighty mills. But I have the memory to reflect on.

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Old 02-26-2011, 07:23 AM
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I suppose theat Flicker & Flash had the excuse of high winds for the lousy performance yesterday, but as they have defaced nearly every tree in Maryland I do not see why they cannot maintain the electicity. It was off - on - off - on - off - on all bloody afternoon. The 13 years I lived in Ottawa there was one power outage.
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Believe it or not, Pete, it's been worse. At least now a lot of the mess is gone. Where there were once dilapidated and abandoned steel mills there are now empty fields, with a few relatively new-ish businesses here and there.
And the old abandoned and burned out neighborhoods have been razed. It's still in sad shape, but twenty years ago, it looked like a war zone. An unbelievable mess, rivaling the ruins of Detroit.

A long, long way to go before it's a decent place to live again, though.
I'm glad to have gotten a glimpse of the tail end of Y'towns glory days as a kid though.

It's sad knowing future generations will grow up having never seen Americas heavy industry at the height of it's glory, or met the men who worked the mighty mills. But I have the memory to reflect on.

Dave
Agreed, but I don't think there's room for 'real' men in the brave new America.

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Yeah...the Chinese are doing a wonderful job with the "General".
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Agreed, but I don't think there's room for 'real' men in the brave new America.

Pete
Who were, in large part----union.

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How do you consider the entire world have been around in century possibly even?

Only one person could have wrote this...Google Translate.
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